David Neumarks work on gender and labor markets appears for the first time in one book here with new introductory …

discrimination, and policy responses. Yet there is still a considerable lack of consensus on all three of these issues. I would argue … some evidence consistent with these explanations, this evidence does not rule out an important role for discrimination in … generating sex differences in labor markets. I also believe that the lack of consensus regarding the existence of discrimination …

Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …

extensively, and have generated a long history in labor economics research of empirical tests for labor market discrimination. The … most widely-used approach to test for labor market discrimination is based on wage regressions estimated at the level of … individual workers, with the estimate of discrimination inferred from the residual race, sex, or ethnic group differential in …